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The pills, he claims, will stop radioactive contaminants attaching themselves to the DNA of Japanese children.
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In addition to radioactive contaminants, the material also removes salt and heavy metals from water making it ideal for use in treating water after natural disasters.
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As my colleague Jeff McMahon has noted earlier this week, one risk of nuclear that has come to light in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster is the possibility of radioactive contaminants, particularly iodide, making its way into drinking water.
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One concern raised by such contaminants is that chemically, radioactive and non-radioactivie iodides are too similar for the body to tell apart, thus raising the risk that radioactive iodides can accumulate and lead to further health risks.
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Rather, as a consequence of injecting water and sand into the shale formation to crack the rocks so gas and oil will flow, massive amounts of waste water comes back to the surface with significant amounts of contaminants as a result of leaching out salt, heavy metals and trace amounts of radioactive materials from the rock formation itself.
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